SynthFest UK 2019 - Composing With Tape with Marta Salogni
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Engineer and producer Marta Salogni used her Revox and Akai reel-to-reel tape machine setup along with a Buchla synthesizer to demonstrate the compositional elements of tape within electronic music creation. Based on a live performance, she talked about tape machines as musical instruments whilst showing different forms of creative processing such as tape loops, feedback and cross-routing sends and returns.
Marta has worked with artists across a range of styles including Björk, Bon Iver, Goldfrapp, Frank Ocean, and Holly Herndon.
www.synthfest.co.uk
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:09 - Setup For The Performance With Akai Tape Machine
05:10 - Performance Using Tape Delays
08:01 - Capturing Volume And EQ Changes With Feedback
09:43 - Using The Revox Tape Machine
11:36 - Interaction With Machines
12:29 - Performance Using Two Tape Machines
19:44 - Using Tape Loops In The Studio
23:20 - How To Edit Tape With A Razorblade And Editing Block
28:32 - Sourcing A Tape Machine And Keeping Them Maintained
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I came here after dozens of listenings of DM`s Memento Mori, now I can understand why it`s so different and refreshing.
Her voice sounds like a mix of every accent in the world.
This seems like a very meditative process, small adjustments add layers of noise in an aurally pleasing way - I like the unpredictable results that sometimes occur when working with tape delays, dunno if I'd want to fill my studio with old reel to reel machines but I really appreciate watching someone who takes the time and effort to create a set up like this.
Hearing your experimentations makes me look forward even more the new Depeche Mode album, as you said it's a refreshing sound , very curious how it will turn out.
Well... As a true to the core Depeche fan since day 1, my view on this album produced by her and the other fellar i already forgot the name of might not be suitable for the public.. But i can mildly say it was a bit.... Not a Depeche album, but a set of Depeche demo's.
@@mixroomonestudioengineerin2176 true but i like it way more then Spirit, yet... the eternal question remains ...: what would Alan have done with the material ?......
Such a great Inside into the Topic! Marta has a wonderfully artistic approach of using Tape as a an Instrument.
Grande Marta!! Unica!!
Now this I like!
I went to this seminar, the Q&A session at the end of her talk was interesting, sadly this is not shown on the video. The Q&A was being filmed, maybe it could be released as an extra. :)
I really wished Crumb the Band would hit her up because this is the kind of sounds they go for and she's an ABSOLUTE GENIUS when it comes to establishing soundscapes with tapy synths.
I love this woman
Goddamn half an hour of presenting tape delay as the pinnacle of analogue creativity.
I'm so pleased being able to see this one via UA-cam. Would have been annoyed at giving it a big portion of my time at Synthfest. When I was about 15, me and a best mate loved doing this stuff, but of course we had no money for a Buchla. Even so, had fun. I guess to get paid and grants for this stuff in 2019, you need to be doing the voodoo mystery thing, preferably young, female and indeterminate accent.
A later comment says her name is Marta and she's from Italy. Belissima!
I have a Midistudio 644 and a RE-501, and it's fun using tape as an effect. I hope I can score a Stellavox one day for transferring my digital field recordings.
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This is a nice showcase of her love for tape. The refutable claims aren't necessary.
this is awesome, and it's making me feel inspired! she has a very interesting accent. where is she from?
Birmingham
Marta is from Brescia, Italy
It is amazing that in current times somebody actually uses old outdated technology just because...
yeah used to be the only way if you had no $, as was the case back in the day with just about everyone (astronomically more equipment and $ now) .
May the ship lapped and varnished tenticles of the trumpet queen sing that holy song until the mountains of the gong people give us their frozen bounty.
You spelt testicles wrong....
She's an utterly and complete genius.
Genius implies creating something of original value which I don't see here.
marry me
I wonder how many of the old crowd were hoping for some kind of new tape porn and ended up with blueballs. Kinda seems like teaching 101 to grad students
I was there, and unfortunately found it disappointing. Tape techniques have been well documented since the times of Stockhausen or The Radiophonic Workshop. The guy with the Buchla was making all the interesting sounds. All she was doing was adding some delay and looping. She might have well just been using a couple of guitar pedals. Her talk was all stuff that anybody who is into this must know already. Sorry to sound so negative, but it was ultimately an uninspiring seminar. I was hoping to see something a bit more refreshing like Heinbach does.
I agree, nothing new here, the seminar is best suited for year 9 high school students and not media professionals.
Delay pedals, much of them, are based on tape delay. Process as important as outcome is message here. But curious what else you’d expect from tape other than maybe flanging effects that should have been covered?
Right, so you attended a workshop about a well-explored, well-documented topic that you are already knowledgeable about and left disappointed that the topic was covered?
@@jakestewartmusic Nope. I attended a workshop entitled 'Composing with tape'. There was no indication beforehand of what she would be presenting or what the content/topic would be.
If you attend a workshop entitled 'Composing with tape' in 2019, surely you could be forgiven for expecting to see something new or inovating rather than something that is well documented already. Especially at an event that people have paid to attend.
When someone gets up on a stage and does a presentation about a topic that's well documented, as though they've just invented it, surely you can understand how many people attending may find that disappointing.
I was not the only one who felt like this on the day. There were many disappointed murmurings from people sitting in the area around me. I heard one person comment, "This should have been called 'How to suck eggs with tape".
@@wvo2m I guess I'm just not sure what y'all were expecting from something titled "Composing with Tape", regardless of what year. Unless y'all were expecting her to write a song by rubbing some duct tape rolls together, the workshop is about tape - the compositionally-stimulating uses of which are decades-old ideas (musique concrete, tape loops, sound-on-sound, frippertronics, echos, etc).
My take-away is that this is more in praise of the analog workflow and the experience of being open to letting those old school tape ideas (like echo) inspire you during composition. I don't get any of the assertion that she thinks she invented any of this or that this is some mind-blowing new concept, reads to me like an introduction to using analog tape for the uninitiated.
IMO if you were expecting someone to literally re-invent the wheel of analog tape recording in a 30 minute workshop, your disappointment was deserved.
its cool. But the tape and sound art thing seems a bit of a bandwagon at this stage. Where's the romance gone?
it could be said that rock music is "a bit bandwagon at this point", but no one is saying that. so why does it matter how many artists are working with tape?
Key issue here: Romance. Sadly missing in the wider creative practices these days.
This is preserving romance if anything is? Or what does that mean/ what is the concern
Exceptionally boring.
Super boring